Graphic Design: Content Portability & the Information Hierarchy

There are many ways to say the same thing.

I designed and coded these examples for my students to demonstrate the idea of “portability of content”, to get them thinking about the information hierarchy and simultaneous uses of data in layout design.

For each design, there are the same 7 sections in the information hierarchy (shown below). The HTML in each of these designs is 100% the same (all that changes is the CSS).

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Here are the 7 sections in the information hierarchy:

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Corcoran College of Art + Design

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John Carmody

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Fall Semester 2012

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interactive WEB design I
interactive WEB design II
junior studio GRAPHIC design
documentary AUDIO design
senior thesis DIGITAL media design

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John Carmody

CV website
video website
audio website

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School

corcboard
tutorials
email

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Choose A Theme

invitation
decay
mishmash
Steinweiss LP
blade runner
iPad
swiss
the bleakness
television kills
back in the ussr
notebook

Custom-Designed Clothing For Sale!

Mostly, I focus on recreations of ephemeral relics from the better days of the USA.

Original Custom Face Mask Designs

Stay Healthy (Or Stay Beautiful) With An Original Design

Recent Site Highlights

Aircheck Collection

I used to be a hoarder of found moments on the AM & FM radio airwaves

The Big Broadcast

Ed Walker, one of the Joy Boys, brought back the golden days of radio every Sunday night for 30 years.

Gunsmoke. Jack Benny. Dragnet. Lum 'n Abner. The Shadow. News of the day, much more.

The Big Broadcast played on WAMU FM on Sunday nights, mostly from 7 to 11.

The Eddie Stubbs Show

Eddie Stubbs's Sunday show on WAMU FM played a variety of classic honkytonk, traditional country and vintage bluegrass + deep catalog favorites.

This was a show for listening to while drinking beer in the sun in the afternoon, great music delivered with unique insight.

The Dick Spottswood Show

The "Obsolete Music Hour" played rare classic recordings of bluegrass, country, string bands, honky tonk, western swing, blues, gospel & old world music.

Great Music & Sports

Off-the-air live recordings of a now-defunct station playing all sorts of great American popular music from the mid-20th century, back when music was good.

You'll also find some Baltimore Orioles post-game highlights from the mid-1980s.

News & Music on WAMU

From elections to 9/11 to the war on terror, these off-the-air live recordings of events of the day are from NPR on WAMU FM.

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